Asahi
Shimbun -- Tokyo, Japan -- Asahi Shimbun
is the world's largest newspaper, with a daily circulation of 12
million, is greater than the combined total circulation of the top
nine U.S. newspapers. English-edition
is also available. Updated daily. (Japanese and English)

Japan
Times -- Tokyo, Japan -- Founded in
1897, the Japan Times has been Japan's premier English-language
daily newspaper, providing comprehensive coverage of world
and domestic news, business and politics. Additionally, the
Japan Times boasts the largest classified ad sections
of any English-language daily in Japan. Updated daily.
(English)

Kyodo
News -- Tokyo,
Japan -- Kyodo's mission is to supply timely
and accurate political, economic, business, city and cultural news,
mainly of Asia and the Pacific Rim, to non-Japanese media. KNI
now provides major newspapers, TV broadcasters, financial services,
online databases and government agencies with more than 200 news
reports daily.

Kyodo's Japanese-language news service
is distributed to almost all newspapers and radio-TV networks
in Japan. The combined circulation of newspaper subscribers
is about 50 million. Updated daily. (English)

Okinawa
Times -- Naha City, Okinawa -- The Okinawa
Times was first published in 1948, three years after the end of the
Second World War, receiving support from the local people. The circulation
of the daily and evening editions totals about 185,000 as of May,
1996. Updated daily.
English-version
available. (Japanese and English)

Pacific
Stars & Stripes -- Tokyo, Japan --
As the hometown newspaper for servicemembers, government civilians
and their
families in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Pacific, Stars
and Stripes offers the same type of national and international news,
sports and opinion columns found in newspapers in the United States.
Military news, updated daily. Stripes' giant Pacific paper
route is bounded on the north by Misawa, Japan, on the south by Java,
Indonesia, on the west by Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, and on
the east by Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.(English)